Non-communicable Diseases · NEET PG Preparation Community Medicine (PSM)
A public health researcher is calculating the proportion of lung cancer cases in a population that could be eliminated if smoking were completely era…
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medium · MCQ · Q-E05EC8
A public health researcher is calculating the proportion of lung cancer cases in a population that could be eliminated if smoking were completely eradicated. Which epidemiological measure should be used?
- A.Attributable Risk (Risk Difference)
- B.Population Attributable Risk (PAR) or Population Attributable FractionCorrect answer
- C.Relative Risk
- D.Odds Ratio
Solution
Population Attributable Fraction (PAF) measures the proportional reduction in disease that would occur if exposure to the risk factor were eliminated from the population.
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